No war has killed as many American men as the Civil War. This is because it was a war between ourselves. Leading up to the war were disagreements about slavery and Presidents and other things like that. The South on one side, and the North on the other. When Lincoln was elected, who the North wanted as President but the South didn't, all hell broke loose. The South attacked northern troops at Fort Sumter and thus began the Civil War. In this war the North had almost every advantage but still the war went on for 4 years.

The Northern states had many advantages over the South. For this reason they assumed the war would be over in a couple of months. They were wrong. The first major advantage of the North was simply manpower. Two-thirds of the nations population lived in the northern states. In numbers of men fighting the North had many more than the south.

At this time in America's history, nine of the ten biggest cities were in the North. This helped with a lot of things. One of the biggest things was that 70 percent of the nation's railroad track was in the North. This allowed for easier movement of troops and supplies, which is always a huge factor in war. The North also had twice as many factories than the South. This gave the North a much greater ability to produce guns, ammunition, shoes, clothes and whatever else the armies needed.

The South had to major advantages. The first was generals and officers. Most of the nations military academies are in the south, therefore the south had much better trained officers and generals. The second advantage of the South was simply the home field advantage. They were defending their land and as it always is for some reason defending what's yours gives you kind of more incentive to win.

Even with the North's many advantages over the South, the South's two big advantages proved to be as strong as the rest. I believe that because they were defending their own homeland, they were...

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Period 3
March 20, 2013
CBA final draft
The CivilWar
Until this day people sill debate about what the main cause of the civilwar was. The civilwar was a war fought between the Northern and Southern states of the U.S. It was a battle about disagreements between the north and south states that took place all over the U.S. Many of the battles took place from the Mississippi river to the eastern shore. Probably the most gruesome battle of this war was the battle of Gettysburg. Out of the 2.4 million soldiers fighting in this war, about 620,000 were killed and many more injured. The conflict between the North and South during 1861 to 1865, was caused by Lincoln’s election and differences, and could have been avoided by having an agreement made on the issue of slavery.
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...What caused the American CivilWar? It is amazing that even today, nearly 150 years after the CivilWar started, there is passionate debate regarding the "cause" of the CivilWar. Consider this:
It is a fact that when the armies for the North and South were first formed, only a small minority of the soldiers on either side would have declared that the reason they joined the army was to fight either "for" or "against" slavery.
However, equally true is the statement: "Had there been no slavery, there would have been no war. Had there been no moral condemnation of slavery, there would have been no war." (This was made by Sydney E. Ahlstrome, in his monumental study of religion in America A Religious History of the American People, Yale University Press,1972, on p. 649; it was echoed by Maj. General John B. Gordon, CSA, in his Memoirs, Chapter 1, first page)
The message here is that the reasons a nation goes to war are usually various and complicated. The American CivilWar is no exception.
Background
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